The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1887-08-07

It's retrograding would be great. That tho
Indians cannot mako very rapid progress
under equal disadvantages is no less evident.
Tho King Of tho Slave Dealers.
The great slave dealer Of the Egyptian
soudan has been released from his prison ct
Gibraltar. It Is about twelve years since
ZKBEHR Pasha went to Cairo with half
million dollars of his ill-gotten gains. hoping
to bride the Khedive's Ministers and prevent
Gen. GoRDoN's crusade against the slave
trafflo. He has never since seen tho wide
domain where for 80 many years ho lorded
1t over Arab and native and aspired to be the
rival OF IsMAIL Pasha. II am an old man
now" he pleaded nearly two years ago.
LET me and my family 60 In peace. We
will live In Mecca or Jerusalem, and so will
end my time" Both Egypt and the British
War once, after long elaboration, decided
that ZEBEHn Pasha could not safely be re-
leased from custody. They have changed
their minds, and tho king Of the slave dealers
is once moro FREQ man.
The explorer ScHwENFuRTHfou found ZEBEHR
Pasha far up the Nile. surrounded by a
court and living In almost princely style. A
vast region was at the mercy Of hundreds
OF slave dealers, with ZEBEHR at their head.
He owned thirty-one fortified posts, garri-
soned by strong bands Of Arabs. whose sole
business was to hdnap negroes and drive
them to the slave marts. His power and
arrogance grow year by year. The Khe-
dive, who feared him, made him Pasha,
and then he demanded tho Governor-Gen
eralship. He dismissed tho Khedlve's tax
gatherers empty handed, saying he would
pay tribute to no one. Most students Of re-
cont Egyptian history agree that IsMAII.
Pasha engaged CONDOR to put down the vile
slave tran1c not because he was eager to blot
out the scandal Of the world, but because he
had good reason to fear that ZKBEHR Pasha
would some day head q revolt and try to
wrest from his control the great region of
the Upper Nile.
Before ZEBKHR Pasha started for Cairo to
nip In the bud, II possible. the threatened re-
newsl Of the war upon the slave trade. he
called his chiefs together, and, under large
tree near Obeid, he made them swear that II
he sent the word they would unitedly take
up arms against the Khedive. He met
GORDON in Cairo. tried to buy him, and
failed. As fast as steam and camel could
take his messenger to the Soudan the word
Of ZEBEHR Pasha went back to the leagued
slave dealers: "Obey the orders gave you
under the treo" That was the signal for the
bitter struggle in which GORDON and GEssI,
after nearly two years Of fighting, crushed
the power Of the slave stealers. Just before
SULLIVAN, the son Of ZEBEHR Pasha, was
shot to death by GoRDoN's order, he said:
II only my father had been hero to take
command we would never have been beaten"
In the person Of his favortte son, ZEBEHR
Pasha expiated in some measure the many
crimes he had committed and the revolt he
had kindled. Tried for high treason himself
and condemned to death, he was finally per-
mitted to live under the surveillance OF the
authorities at Cairo.
Tho world was astounded when Gen. Cor
DON. after his last return to Khartoum, de-
manded that ZEBEHR Pasha be sent to him to
aid in the rescue of the Egyptian garrison and
the publication Of the Soudan. He had de-
nounced ZEBKHR q the curse Of the coun-
try. It seemed incredible that he should
now propose to trust his own life or any
Egyptian interest In tho hands Of tho willy
and revengsful Arab whose ambition he had
thwartsd and whose son hs'had killed. We
not over one-third Of the populace were
really devoted to tho Mahdi's cause, and
that ZEBEHR Pasha was presminent-
iy the man who could win the al
legiance and consolidate the opposition of
all who feared or disliked the false prophet.
England and Egypt chose to believe that
IKBEHR Pasha would be flrebrand and not
q pacincator II he were permitted to rejoin
his old crow in tho homo Of his ancestors.
They even asserted that In PARKWAY Cairo
he was rendering potent service and encour-
agement to the Mahdi's revolt, and 80, in
stead OF sending him to GORDON, they placed
him under tho prison restraints from which
he has just been released.
The king Of tho slave dealers is now q
broken old man, his fortune dissipated, his
family scattered. dependent for maintenance
upon his enemies, who for some years have
doled out to him an allowance Of $500 a
month. He will probably never DO permitted
to return to his native land, where his
fathers lived for eight hundred years. Per-
haps the fiery energy that lifted him above
his fellows Is not yet wholly quenched. and
very likely no takes grim satisfaction In OBJ
serving that In spite of tho England and the
Egypt he hates, the Soudan is once more the
hunting ground Of Arab slavers. The in
famous traffic that under his fostering
care assumed such enormous proportions
was, after all. only scotched, not killed, by
tho Christian hero who for time gave the
poor blacks Of tho Soudan o respite from tho
cruel pursuit Of zEBEHR Pasha and his kind.
Mr.. Gladstons's Father.
Notwithstanding the number and the stub
bornness Of the straws which indicate that
the tide Of public opinion In England has
once moro set in for the Liberals, the Tories